/etc/mail/aliases.db out of date

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:17:19PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote:
> hi
> 
> i cvsup'd a few days ago to 4.8 from 4.7
> 
> ever since, i've been receiving the following message repeatedly in root's email security reports
> 
> Apr 17 15:00:01 xhostname sm-mta[58360]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of
> +date
> 
> 
> how did this happen?

You updated /etc/mail/aliases, probably by running mergemaster, but
you didn't regenerate the aliases.db file from the aliases file -- and
it's aliases.db being older than aliases which sendmail is complaining
about.

Fix is simple.  Just run:

    # newaliases

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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